With a swinging program that recalls the spirit of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, this contemporary trio of veteran jazzmen delivers straight from the heart. The cohesive program jumps in a ...

Conceived by label owner David Chesky as a followup to last season's Four Generations of Miles, this project features four musicians who embody the spirit of post-war swing music but also play with ...

Jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli has played with everyone from Zoot Sims and Benny Goodman to Doc Severinsen on The Tonight Show, where he honed his reputation as one of the great chord soloists and ...

Despite the example of Wynton Marsalis over the past quartercentury, it’s still rare to find instrumentalists who are nearly as accomplished in classical music as they are in jazz. It’s even harder to ...

When we talk about guitar heroes, the name Bucky Pizzarelli is seldom mentioned. He s not a fiery soloist or flashy showman. Instead, Pizzarelli whose style is deeply indebted to Django Reinhardt made ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Jazz has a strong tradition of singers, and an equally impressive track record regarding guitarists. In John Pizzarelli, who has ...

Bucky Pizzarelli, a jazz guitar giant and member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame who played with most of the greats in his decades-long career, has died. He was 94 and had been diagnosed with ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It has been two years, explained John Pizzarelli, since the Swing Seven have ...

The death of jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli on April 1 from Covid-19 was a gut punch to the music world. In his honor, D’Angelico Guitars is auctioning a signed Excel EXL-1 model guitar played by ...

Pizzarelli, who died April 1 of COVID-19, played with Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, among others. He spoke to Fresh Air in '92 and again, with his son John, in '06.